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Solve the equation. Check for extraneous solutions. In(7x-4) = In(2x+11)

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Question: Solve the equation:


\ln (7x-4)=\text{ ln(2x+11)}

Solution:

applying the laws of logarithms (applying the inverse function of the logarithm function) we get:


e^(\ln (7x-4))=e^{\text{ ln(2x+11)}}

this is equivalent to:


7x-4=\text{ 2x+11}

putting similar terms together we get:


7x-2x=11+4

this is equivalent to:


5x\text{ = 15}

solving for x, we get:


x\text{ = }(15)/(5)\text{ = 3}

then, we can conclude that the solution of the equation is:


x\text{ = 3}

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